How to put a calendar on your personal web site ?

Continuing from before, I want to mention more powerful ways of embedding Google calendar on your website. The technique I mentioned in my previous post has a limitation in that you have to make your calendar public to be able to share it on your blog. Now that is a serious limitation if you want [...]

The all new Visual Studio 2008 Express editions are here!

The new Visual Studio 2008 express editions are awesome. Check out the Web Developer edition.
The FUN section
Get your personal Web site up-and-running quickly using ASP.NET Starter Kits like the DotNetNuke portal kit, the Personal Site kit, the Blog Engine kit, or the Club Site kit
Build custom Facebook applications using the Facebook Developer Toolkit which includes easy-to-use [...]

Getting Started with Personal WebSite

You have decided to start your personal website, where you want to express yourself, share photos and videos with family members, put up your resume, work related experiences, post daily blog thoughts and personalise it with your taste of colors and layout. Now what? Most people stumble here, not knowing exactly where to start and [...]

Share documents, music, pictures and videos with friends and family

Big files are difficult to share, because they cannot be sent as attachments in email. You can upload videos onto youtube or photos into sites like flickr, and then share through links or embedded slideshows/players. They are not always very easy to do and there are privacy concerns. If you do not want to go [...]

Personal email with your domain name

This is exciting. I remember the days when you had to pay for this kind of thing, to buy an email address like firstname@yourdomain.com. Now a days, your hosting provider would likely provide free email accounts for your domain. For example, Economy plan at godaddy.com provides 500 email accounts, but only 10MB disk space.
10MB disk [...]

More Photo Slideshows

Some friends have pointed that there are many other services that provide embedded Slideshows, like Yahoo’s flickr, Google’s Picassa, Slide.com, RockYou, SlideShare and SplashCast. I haven’t tried all of them out, but Picassa’s slideshow is pretty awesome.

When you have time give it a try.
Slideshows using Silverlight
But now I am going to show you an even [...]

Blog vs Website

People often ask me
“Should I start a blog or a website?”
Now each one has its own set of advantages and disadvantages
With blogs for example,
1. You do not have to deal with writing your content in HTML
2. Blogs provide services like enabling visitors to comment on your site.
However, many blogs have limitations in that they do [...]

How to put a calendar on your personal web site ?

This is another most frequently asked question. Many people want some kind of event calendar on their personal web site, to display birth days and other family/friends related private events. Now implementing a calendar is complicated without knowledge of javascript and SQL (you will need some way of storing these dates on the server).
A simple [...]

Use Windows Live Authentication on your personal web site

Many people wonder how to restrict access to their web site, which might contain personal information including photos and videos of private functions. Usually, they would want to restrict access to a group of friends or to members of family.
Instead of going all the way to implement your own authentication mechanism to achieve this, Windows [...]

How to put a KEWL photo slide show on your web site/blog

The first question my non-tech savvy friends ask me about their personal web site is “How can I upload my photos and create a beautiful slide show on my web site?”
There are many ways to do this. I want to discuss one easy way, if you do not want to deal with writing too much [...]